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Originally Posted by SirNik84
Paypal co-founder to build a city on the sea - Yahoo! Real Estate
This seems like a good idea but I can't help but wonder what would happen if you picked up a crew of workers from China parked them off the coast of the US and started up a factory. No government to get in the way, shorter supply lines. All the benifits of Chinese production in our own back yard.
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A barge? sitting in the pacific ocean? how sea worthy is this, will it have tug tenders, will it be capable of self movement? what are the emergency and weather/wave protocols? the images look like something you would design for a bathtub or a river environment, not the pacific.
Why don't they build this on a used ultra crude tanker? that way it will at least be more seaworthy, and can dock or seek shelter from storms
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I like this line from the article-
The logistics of providing food and other basic necessities might seem like a nightmare, but the company notes that these issues have already been solved by modern cruise ships.
Seems like an evasion to me, modern cruise ships dock for resupply, just like every ship ever since the dawn of time, the problem they face would be a completely different form of supply, more like a military base requiring supply ships, or a beachhead.